SHENANDOAH COUNTY, VA: "In a near-unanimous vote Thursday night, Shenandoah County Public Schools board members voted to rename two Virginia schools after Confederate generals four years after they were changed, according to Reuters. Mountain View High School will return to the name Stonewall Jackson, and Honey Run Elementary School will return to the name of Ashby-Lee, ultimately overturning a vote in 2020 that stripped the schools of their original names. Of the six members on the board, all but one board member voted to approve the change on Thursday, according to several other media outlets.
The names were initially changed in the wake of the George Floyd protests, and to remove itself from the pro-Slavery historical figures. A vote to initially revert the names failed in 2022, and according to the BBC, the three who voted against the move have all been replaced on the school board.
Thursday's vote was brought on by a group called the Coalition for Better Schools who said in a letter that the names would "demonstrate a commitment to inclusivity, respect for history, and responsiveness to community feedback."
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